SHS performs well at Mock Trial Competition

Last month, the Mock Trial team at Seneca High School competed in the Piedmont Region of the state Mock Trial competition. Members of the team included: Melissa Galindo, DeAndre Wilson, and Anna Katherine Page, attorneys for the Plaintiff, with their witnesses, Lisa Falta, Alexis Marshall, and McKayla Franks; Brightin Blanton, Monica Rozman, Trevor Rozman, attorneys for the Defense, with their witnesses Macy White, Addison Land, and Bryn Sluder.  Hannah Maxey and Devin McCarley were bailiff and timekeepers for the team. Individual awards were presented to Anna Katherine Page, Monica Rozman, Trevor Kierecki, Bryn Sluder and McKayla Franks. The team presented the prosecution and defendant sides of a fictitious case before a panel of local volunteer lawyers and judges. Additionally, students filled the roles of attorneys, witnesses, bailiffs and timekeepers. Each team was judged on its presentation skills, rather than the legal merits of the case.  This year’s fictitious civil case involved bedbugs, negligence and defamation. The Mock Trial program is sponsored by the S.C. Bar’s Law Related Education Division, which was developed in 1976 to improve the ability of teachers to instruct law related education.  Seneca High School’s team had the support and leadership of lawyers Bethany Blundy from the Solicitor’s 10th Circuit Court, and Angie Littlejohn from Furman University.